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Supervisors Hear $338 Million Shortfall; Mayor's Office Asks Departments for Additional 8% Salary-Reduction Options
Summary
The Board's Budget & Finance Committee heard a joint report showing a $338 million three-year shortfall and the mayor's budget office asked departments to submit options equal to an additional 8% of their salary lines by Friday. The controller flagged a record overtime rate (6.8% of payroll) that could add roughly $51 million to costs if unchecked.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee heard on March 27 that the city faces a projected $338 million shortfall over the next three years and that the mayor's office has directed departments to produce options equal to an additional 8% cut in their salary lines.
"We gave them an additional 8% of their salary line target," Nani Coloretti, the mayor's budget director, told the committee as she described the new instructions she had issued to departments. She said the revised submittals are due on Friday.
The joint three-year projection presented by Todd Rejstrom, director of budget and analysis in the controller's office, breaks the shortfall into two main parts: roughly $98 million of downward changes on the revenue (sources) side and about $241 million of upward changes on the expenditure (uses) side. "The…
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